Gaming donors give $2.6M to Alabama campaigns (07/09)

Gaming interests in Alabama donated $2.6 million to Alabama politicians and campaigns in 2006, the most of any group. The owner of a dog track and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians were the largest...

Editorial: Don't bet on Oklahoma casino revenues (07/09)

"Oklahoma's Indian gaming industry contributed more than $105 million to the state's treasury last year, up about $24 million over the previous fiscal year. That's a revenue stream that didn't exist a decade ago and...

Obama files brief in off-reservation gaming case (07/09)

Tribes who are looking to the Obama administration for change won't find it in a brief the Department of Justice filed in an off-reservation gaming case. Government attorneys said the St. Croix Band of Chippewa...

Court subjects Choctaw Nation to casino lawsuits (07/09)

The Choctaw Nation can be sued by casino patrons in state court, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled on June 30. In two separate decisions, the court determined that the tribal-state compact allows negligence lawsuits to...

Editorial: Ban smoking at tribal casinos in Florida (07/09)

"New state legislation calls for non-smoking zones in any new facilities at Seminole Tribe casinos. That’s nice, but Jai-Alai frontons and cardrooms, including the one in Fort Pierce, are totally smoke-free. What’s good for Treasure...